U+AAB5 "ꪵ" Tai Viet Vowel E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪵ
U+AAB5 "ꪵ" Tai Viet Vowel E is a distinctive glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed for writing several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Tai Dón, primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a short, open-mid front unrounded vowel sound, similar to the "e" in the English word "bet", and is typically written as a diacritical mark that appears above the preceding consonant letter. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text in these languages can be accurately represented, preserving cultural and linguistic heritage while enabling modern communication and computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAB5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Vowel E |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaab5 |